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April’s Bellator 136 is starting to fill out, and the promotion today announced five new additions to the card, including a lightweight matchup of Marcin Held (20-3 MMA, 9-2 BMMA) vs. Alexander Sarnavskiy (30-2 MMA, 5-2 BMMA).

UFC women’s bantamweight and ex-Strikeforce champ Sarah Kaufman would, of course, love to be the next challenger to champ Ronda Rousey after she faces onetime title challenger Alexis Davis next month at UFC 186.

The competition takes place between Florida super-camps American Top Team and The Blackzilians, with $500,000 on the line for the winning team, as well as the customary TUF contract for the winning fighter. So, lets take a look at the fighters competing:
AMERICAN TOP TEAM.........................BLACKZILIANS
NAME...................AGE..RECORD.........NAME.....................AGE......RECORD
WELTERWEIGHTS
Marcelo Alfaya.......36....16–7 (1 NC)....Valdir Araujo...........30........14-5
Steve Carl.............30.....21–4..............Carrington Banks.....26....... 3–0
Nathan Coy........... 36....14–5..............Luiz Buscape...........32........18–6
Michael Graves.......24....4–0................Jason Jackson.........24........4–2
Hayder Hassan.......32....6–1................Vicente Luque.........23........7–4–1
Sabah Homasi........26....8–4................Andrews Nakahara...31.......4–2–2
Uros Jurisic............23....5–0................Felipe Portela...........27.......8–2
Steve Montgomery..24....8–2................Kamaru Usman........26.......5–1

Bellator MMA is taking Quinton "Rampage" Jackson to court over whether the fighter is legally obligated to keep fighting for the world's #2 fight league. Jackson says the Viacom-owned company breached their contract, allowing him to re sign with the UFC, who he once grudgingly described as "the devil you know." Viacom says he owes the remaining three fights on his six-fight contract.

With a few small tweaks, the card for Titan FC 33 is now set.
The card, which takes place at The Aeroplex at Brookley in Mobile, Ala., on March 20, has eleven fights scheduled, including four title bouts. The main card airs on CBS Sports Network.
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It will be a battle of New York-based middleweights in Las Vegas on May 23, as Uriah "Prime Time" Hall and Rafael "Sapo" Natal square off in UFC 187 action at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
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The women's bantamweight title bout continued the fast-paced Ultimate Fighting Championship's return to form after an injury-riddled 2014 that saw bad news on the revenue and credit rating fronts. Now, the once high-flying UFC is trying hard to put last year behind it.
"It put in a level of volatility to our business that we've never seen. To be honest with you, it was kind of an outlier year. We've had injuries we've had to deal with, but nothing to that magnitude," UFC Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta told CNBC...

David Branch is going for his second World Series of Fighting belt.
Fresh off his first middleweight title defense, Branch has decided to move up to 205 pounds and take on Ronny Markes as part of the promotion’s light heavyweight tournament. WSOF president Ray Sefo confirmed the match-up to MMAFighting.com's Ariel Helwani on Wednesday.
Branch vs. Markes will headline WSOF 20 in Mashantucket, Connecticut, on April 10.
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